Plant Silybum marianum (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Milk Thistle; Lady's Thistle

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ISOSILYBIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSILYBIN-A	0	Fruit	not available	42800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSILYBIN-B	0	Fruit	not available	42800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSILYCHRISTIN	0	Fruit	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSIDE-7-O-BETA-D-GALACTURONIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-ALPHA-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KARDOLLIN-22	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KARDOLLIN-35	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KARDOLLIN-75	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KARDOLLIN-95	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed Oil	600000.0	700000.0	1.21	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Mutagenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myostimulant	1	Martindale's 29th
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroinhibitor	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nodulation-Signal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ophthalmic-Antialkali	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.